ACADEMY AWARDS (The "Oscars") 2026

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The Oscars Nominations

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The 98th Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday, January 22, 2026, and Ryan Coogler’s period vampire horror hit broke the record for most nominations for a single feature with 16, overcoming the past title holders ALL ABOUT EVE, TITANIC, and LA LA LAND, which all had 14. When it comes to Oscar nominations, SINNERS has already won. (By all means see SINNERS if you've missed it. If you have but it's. been a while, watch it again: it's brilliant picture.) Among the snubs were WICKED: FOR GOOD, which was completely shut out, while Delroy Lindo and Kate Hudson scored surprise noms. I believe this is the first time in Oscars history that 5 films have at least 9 nominations. Some of us think "F1" does not deserve to be in Best Picture, and that "ACCIDENT' got left out of there wrongly.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Nominees
Timothée Chalamet
Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio
One Battle after Another
Ethan Hawke
Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan
Sinners
Wagner Moura
The Secret Agent

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Nominees
Benicio Del Toro
One Battle after Another
Jacob Elordi
Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo
Sinners
Sean Penn
One Battle after Another
Stellan Skarsgård
Sentimental Value

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Nominees
Jessie Buckley
Hamnet
Rose Byrne
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Kate Hudson
Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve
Sentimental Value
Emma Stone
Bugonia

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Nominees
Elle Fanning
Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan
Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku
Sinners
Teyana Taylor
One Battle after Another

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Nominees
Arco
Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas and Natalie Portman
Elio
Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina and Mary Alice Drumm
KPop Demon Hunters
Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L.M. Wong
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago and Henri Magalon
Zootopia 2
Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Yvett Merino

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Nominees
Butterfly
Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens
Forevergreen
Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Retirement Plan
John Kelly and Andrew Freedman
The Three Sisters
Konstantin Bronzit

CASTING
Nominees
Hamnet
Nina Gold
Marty Supreme
Jennifer Venditti
One Battle after Another
Cassandra Kulukundis
The Secret Agent
Gabriel Domingues
Sinners
Francine Maisler

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Nominees
Frankenstein
Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme
Darius Khondji
One Battle after Another
Michael Bauman
Sinners
Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Train Dreams
Adolpho Veloso

COSTUME DESIGN
Nominees
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Deborah L. Scott
Frankenstein
Kate Hawley
Hamnet
Malgosia Turzanska
Marty Supreme
Miyako Bellizzi
Sinners
Ruth E. Carter

DIRECTING
Nominees
Hamnet
Chloé Zhao
Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie
One Battle after Another
Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier
Sinners
Ryan Coogler

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Nominees
The Alabama Solution
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
Come See Me in the Good Light
Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro and Stef Willen
Cutting through Rocks
Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni
Mr. Nobody against Putin
Nominees to be determined
The Perfect Neighbor
eeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu and Sam Bisbee

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Nominees
All the Empty Rooms
Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo
Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins
The Devil Is Busy
Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir
Perfectly a Strangeness
Alison McAlpine

FILM EDITING
Nominees
F1
Stephen Mirrione
Marty Supreme
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
One Battle after Another
Andy Jurgensen
Sentimental Value
Olivier Bugge Coutté
Sinners
Michael P. Shawver

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Nominees
Brazil
The Secret Agent
France
It Was Just an Accident
Norway
Sentimental Value
Spain
Sirāt
Tunisia
The Voice of Hind Rajab

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Nominees
Butcher's Stain
Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi
A Friend of Dorothy
Lee Knight and James Dean
Jane Austen's Period Drama
Julia Aks and Steve Pinder
The Singers
Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt
Two People Exchanging Saliva
Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Nominees
Frankenstein
Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey
Kokuho
Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu
Sinners
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
The Smashing Machine
Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
The Ugly Stepsister
Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Nominees
Bugonia
Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein
Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet
Max Richter
One Battle after Another
Jonny Greenwood
Sinners
Ludwig Goransson

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Nominees
Dear Me
from Diane Warren: Relentless; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Golden
from KPop Demon Hunters; Music and Lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park
I Lied To You
from Sinners; Music and Lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson
Sweet Dreams Of Joy
from Viva Verdi!; Music and Lyric by Nicholas Pike
Train Dreams
from Train Dreams; Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; Lyric by Nick Cave

BEST PICTURE
Nominees
BUGONIA
Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen, Producers
F1
Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
FRANKENSTEIN
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber, Producers
HAMNET
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes, Producers
MARTY SUPREME
Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas and Timothée Chalamet, Producers
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
THE SECRET AGENT
Emilie Lesclaux, Producer
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Producers
SINNERS
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler, Producers
TRAIN DREAMS
Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler, Producers

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Nominees
Frankenstein
Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
Hamnet
Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
Marty Supreme
Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis
One Battle after Another
Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Sinners
Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne

SOUND
Nominees
F1
Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta
Frankenstein
Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern
One Battle after Another
José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor
Sinners
Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor and Steve Boeddeker
Sirāt
Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas

VISUAL EFFECTS
Nominees
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
F1
Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington and Keith Dawson
Jurassic World Rebirth
David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan and Neil Corbould
The Lost Bus
Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen and Brandon K. McLaughlin
Sinners
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter and Donnie Dean

WRITING (ADOPTED SCREENPLAY)
Nominees
Bugonia
Screenplay by Will Tracy
Frankenstein
Written for the Screen by Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet
Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O'Farrell
One Battle after Another
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams
Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Nominees
Blue Moon
Written by Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident
Written by Jafar Panahi; Script collaborators - Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
Marty Supreme
Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value
Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Sinners
Written by Ryan Coogler